Regina,
I do not live too far from Friendship Cemetary. Is there something you
would like for me to look for? I can send you a picture if there is someone
you are looking for?

THanks>

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Amy Christensen

Hello all: I m looking for the headstone for C.M.A.J. Sisk, born 16 Feb 1844 in Jackson County, Alabama. She married Ambrose Lafayette Precise in 1865 and

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Hello all:

I'm looking for the headstone for C.M.A.J. Sisk, born 16 Feb 1844 in Jackson County, Alabama. She married Ambrose Lafayette Precise in 1865 and they had a child, Delila Francis "Deedie" Precise (born 1866), who later moved to Eastland County, Texas. It seems that she may have died in childbirth with Deedie, but the death date I have is 1891, which I really doubt. Ambrose remarried Phebe Jane Sanders in 1868. C.M.A.J. may have also been called Melissa or Malissa, but I'm not sure of that.

I already checked findagrave.com with no luck, but I know she's buried somewhere in Jackson County. Is anyone familiar with her? Have any more information on her?

Thank you so much!
Amy

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to dance in the rain."

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Clay Gullatt

Amy Have you tried the Jackson Co. Mega Cementery File at the Group Home Website? Clay ... From: Amy Christensen Subject:

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, Dec 15, 2009

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Amy

Have you tried the Jackson Co. Mega Cementery File at the Group Home Website?

I'm looking for the headstone for C.M.A.J. Sisk, born 16 Feb 1844 in Jackson County, Alabama. She married Ambrose Lafayette Precise in 1865 and they had a child, Delila Francis "Deedie" Precise (born 1866), who later moved to Eastland County, Texas. It seems that she may have died in childbirth with Deedie, but the death date I have is 1891, which I really doubt. Ambrose remarried Phebe Jane Sanders in 1868. C.M.A.J. may have also been called Melissa or Malissa, but I'm not sure of that.

I already checked findagrave.com with no luck, but I know she's buried somewhere in Jackson County. Is anyone familiar with her? Have any more information on her?

Thank you so much!
Amy

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to dance in the rain."

Ambrose L. Precise is buried in the Shelton Cemetery. Here are the listings:

A. L. Precise 4-6=1842 11-2-1915
P. J. Precise 2-14-1844 2-7-1894

Pheba J. Precise 2-16-1844 3-14-1894

I wonder if one of these are CMAJ Sisk Precise with the wrong name/dates? More than likely she is buried in the Shelton Cemetery and if one of these are not her then in an unmarked grave as there are many graves marked with just field stones. Some of the field stones have names/dates but were hard to read. This cemetery was last surveyed by Jane and Randy Nichols in 1999.

I'm looking for the headstone for C.M.A.J. Sisk, born 16 Feb 1844 in Jackson County, Alabama. She married Ambrose Lafayette Precise in 1865 and they had a child, Delila Francis "Deedie" Precise (born 1866), who later moved to Eastland County, Texas. It seems that she may have died in childbirth with Deedie, but the death date I have is 1891, which I really doubt. Ambrose remarried Phebe Jane Sanders in 1868. C.M.A.J. may have also been called Melissa or Malissa, but I'm not sure of that.

I already checked findagrave.com with no luck, but I know she's buried somewhere in Jackson County. Is anyone familiar with her? Have any more information on her?

Thank you so much!
Amy

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to dance in the rain."

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Mark Klan

Amy - I qualify as familiar with C.M.A.J. Sisk, but I don t have any more solid information than you. I do have a photocopy of a handwritten family record

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Amy -

I qualify as familiar with C.M.A.J. Sisk, but I don't have any more
solid information than you.

I do have a photocopy of a handwritten family record sheet prepared
by a "Joy Precise" that also shows a death date of 3 Mar 1891. The
sheet gives specific sources on CMAJ Sisk as 1) marriage license from
Jackson Cty, 2) grave headstone, and 3) "personal knowledge of Bertha
Proctor, granddaughter of husband, Route 1, Scottsboro, Ala." I
think the sheet was prepared in the 1970s.

That death date is only plausible if CMAJ and Ambrose Precise were
divorced, but I have no specific knowledge of that. Ambrose married
Phebe Jane Sanders in 1868, as you indicated, and later married
Cynthia Ann (Kirby) Cobb in 1898.

I never located CMAJ (Sisk) Precise in the Jackson County Cemetery
Mega File, nor any prior census info on her (although I didn't look
hard for the latter).

Rhonda Woodard sent a message to this list on 4 Jan 2004, which had
the following (snipped):

> I am researching Ambrose Precise son of William and Delilah Hawk Precise.
> Ambrose married C.M.A.J. Sisk(1865) they had one child Delila born(1866).
> This is all that I know about C.M.A.J. Sisk, I cannot locate which of the Sisk
> families she is from.

That's all I have...

Sorry I'm not more help. If you find anything additional, I would be
very interested in hearing about it. Ambrose Precise was the brother
of my g-g-grandfather John F. Precise.

Mark Klan
mark *at-sign* markabout.com

On 14 Dec 2009 at 20:25, Amy Christensen wrote:
> Hello all:
>
> I'm looking for the headstone for C.M.A.J. Sisk, born 16 Feb 1844 in
> Jackson County, Alabama. She married Ambrose Lafayette Precise in
> 1865 and they had a child, Delila Francis "Deedie" Precise (born
> 1866), who later moved to Eastland County, Texas. It seems that she
> may have died in childbirth with Deedie, but the death date I have
> is 1891, which I really doubt. Ambrose remarried Phebe Jane Sanders
> in 1868. C.M.A.J. may have also been called Melissa or Malissa, but
> I'm not sure of that.
>
> I already checked findagrave.com with no luck, but I know she's
> buried somewhere in Jackson County. Is anyone familiar with her?
> Have any more information on her?
>
> Thank you so much!
> Amy

Cindy Smith

Amy, Do you have the census records for this family? There is quite a bit on Ambrose Precise at http://pilot.familysearch.org. The census for 1850 - 1900. Then

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Amy,

Do you have the census records for this family? There is quite a bit on Ambrose Precise at http://pilot.familysearch.org The census for 1850 - 1900. Then if you search Delilah Precise there are death records of her children in Texas. A search of Delilah Dolberry gives her death certificate in Texas.

I'm looking for the headstone for C.M.A.J. Sisk, born 16 Feb 1844 in Jackson County, Alabama. She married Ambrose Lafayette Precise in 1865 and they had a child, Delila Francis "Deedie" Precise (born 1866), who later moved to Eastland County, Texas. It seems that she may have died in childbirth with Deedie, but the death date I have is 1891, which I really doubt. Ambrose remarried Phebe Jane Sanders in 1868. C.M.A.J. may have also been called Melissa or Malissa, but I'm not sure of that.

I already checked findagrave.com with no luck, but I know she's buried somewhere in Jackson County. Is anyone familiar with her? Have any more information on her?

Thank you so much!

Amy

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...

It's about learning to dance in the rain."

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Amy Christensen

Cindy: I have census records for Ambrose from 1850-1910 and for Delila Precise from 1870-1930. I simply can t find the mother, who on the marriage certificate

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, Dec 16, 2009

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Cindy:

I have census records for Ambrose from 1850-1910 and for Delila Precise from 1870-1930. I simply can't find the mother, who on the marriage certificate is listed as C.M.A.J. Sisk. The marriage to Ambrose was in 1865, and the birth of Delila 1866, which is in between census takings. I know Ambrose remarried in 1868, and assuming she died in childbirth (which was of course common back then) and that they didn't divorce (which wasn't common then), I don't have the blessing of census records to help me.

I do appreciate the link you posted though. I didn't know about it, and I look forward to using it more. I was hoping to find the Sisk family on here who might have known about her. There is a document called "Precise family notes" that says C.M.A.J. had a brother named Wesley, and I think I've narrowed the family down from there using earlier census records before she married.

Thanks for the help!
Amy

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to dance in the rain."

Do you have the census records for this family? There is quite a bit on Ambrose Precise at http://pilot.familysearch.org The census for 1850 - 1900. Then if you search Delilah Precise there are death records of her children in Texas. A search of Delilah Dolberry gives her death certificate in Texas.

I'm looking for the headstone for C.M.A.J. Sisk, born 16 Feb 1844 in Jackson County, Alabama. She married Ambrose Lafayette Precise in 1865 and they had a child, Delila Francis "Deedie" Precise (born 1866), who later moved to Eastland County, Texas. It seems that she may have died in childbirth with Deedie, but the death date I have is 1891, which I really doubt. Ambrose remarried Phebe Jane Sanders in 1868. C.M.A.J. may have also been called Melissa or Malissa, but I'm not sure of that.

I already checked findagrave.com with no luck, but I know she's buried somewhere in Jackson County. Is anyone familiar with her? Have any more information on her?

Thank you so much!

Amy

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...

It's about learning to dance in the rain."

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Amy Christensen

Mark: Joy Precise, who is now Joy Lard, is my aunt, and she most likely got the information from my mom (Eveonne). My mom and she were both very involved in

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Mark:

Joy Precise, who is now Joy Lard, is my aunt, and she most likely got the information from my mom (Eveonne). My mom and she were both very involved in family history in the 70s and did a lot of good work back then. Aunt Bertha died back in 1989, but her memory was unrivaled. The only problem is, my mom doesn't remember where the headstone is, or if she ever saw one. She does remember that Aunt Bertha didn't know what the initials CMAJ stood for, but I'm thinking maybe there was a mixup in the death date. Thus the asking here. Bertha Proctor is Robert Bertha Precise, oldest child of John William Precise, who was a son of Ambrose Lafayette Precise & Phebe Jane Sanders.

I didn't know you could look through past messages here, I appreciate you putting the snippet of Rhonda's message on here again. That was from before I even started on family history work, so I wouldn't have seen it.

I think I may have narrowed down the family of CMAJ Sisk, with the help of Rhonda Woodard, as I mentioned in another email earlier. It's a tenuous link though. I looked for a Sisk family in Jackson County that had a daughter with a name that started with one of CMAJ's initials born 1844, who had a brother named Wesley (that is from the document "Precise family notes") and came up with the same family that Rhonda had: Willis S Sisk and Francis Nancy Money, with a daughter named Melissa born 1844. I checked on Ancestry and couldn't verify it completely, as none of the family trees had listed Melissa with a spouse or death date. That's as far as I've gotten.

Thanks for all the help, I appreciate it!

Amy

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to dance in the rain."

I qualify as familiar with C.M.A.J. Sisk, but I don't have any more
solid information than you.

I do have a photocopy of a handwritten family record sheet prepared
by a "Joy Precise" that also shows a death date of 3 Mar 1891. The
sheet gives specific sources on CMAJ Sisk as 1) marriage license from
Jackson Cty, 2) grave headstone, and 3) "personal knowledge of Bertha
Proctor, granddaughter of husband, Route 1, Scottsboro, Ala." I
think the sheet was prepared in the 1970s.

That death date is only plausible if CMAJ and Ambrose Precise were
divorced, but I have no specific knowledge of that. Ambrose married
Phebe Jane Sanders in 1868, as you indicated, and later married
Cynthia Ann (Kirby) Cobb in 1898.

I never located CMAJ (Sisk) Precise in the Jackson County Cemetery
Mega File, nor any prior census info on her (although I didn't look
hard for the latter).

Rhonda Woodard sent a message to this list on 4 Jan 2004, which had
the following (snipped):

> I am researching Ambrose Precise son of William and Delilah Hawk Precise.
> Ambrose married C.M.A.J. Sisk(1865) they had one child Delila born(1866).
> This is all that I know about C.M.A.J. Sisk, I cannot locate which of the Sisk
> families she is from.

That's all I have...

Sorry I'm not more help. If you find anything additional, I would be
very interested in hearing about it. Ambrose Precise was the brother
of my g-g-grandfather John F. Precise.

Mark Klan
mark *at-sign* markabout.com

On 14 Dec 2009 at 20:25, Amy Christensen wrote:
> Hello all:
>
> I'm looking for the headstone for C.M.A.J. Sisk, born 16 Feb 1844 in
> Jackson County, Alabama. She married Ambrose Lafayette Precise in
> 1865 and they had a child, Delila Francis "Deedie" Precise (born
> 1866), who later moved to Eastland County, Texas. It seems that she
> may have died in childbirth with Deedie, but the death date I have
> is 1891, which I really doubt. Ambrose remarried Phebe Jane Sanders
> in 1868. C.M.A.J. may have also been called Melissa or Malissa, but
> I'm not sure of that.
>
> I already checked findagrave.com with no luck, but I know she's
> buried somewhere in Jackson County. Is anyone familiar with her?
> Have any more information on her?
>
> Thank you so much!
> Amy

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Amy Christensen

Clay: Thanks for looking up that information, I really appreciate your help. Ambrose s wife Phebe Jane has those dates mentioned and I have the same dates. I

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Clay:

Thanks for looking up that information, I really appreciate your help. Ambrose's wife Phebe Jane has those dates mentioned and I have the same dates. I haven't made it to the Shelton cemetery in person yet, but I thought that perhaps since CMAJ was married only a year to Ambrose, she might have been buried in a cemetery with other Sisk family members. I do have a Sisk family she might be related to, so my next step I think is to find where they are buried. I know I have the Nichols cemetery files somewhere, I'll have to see if I can find them. Hopefully she has a real headstone and not just a field rock, but either is possible.

Amy

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to dance in the rain."

Ambrose L. Precise is buried in the Shelton Cemetery. Here are the listings:

A. L. Precise 4-6=1842 11-2-1915
P. J. Precise 2-14-1844 2-7-1894

Pheba J. Precise 2-16-1844 3-14-1894

I wonder if one of these are CMAJ Sisk Precise with the wrong name/dates? More than likely she is buried in the Shelton Cemetery and if one of these are not her then in an unmarked grave as there are many graves marked with just field stones. Some of the field stones have names/dates but were hard to read. This cemetery was last surveyed by Jane and Randy Nichols in 1999.

I'm looking for the headstone for C.M.A.J. Sisk, born 16 Feb 1844 in Jackson County, Alabama. She married Ambrose Lafayette Precise in 1865 and they had a child, Delila Francis "Deedie" Precise (born 1866), who later moved to Eastland County, Texas. It seems that she may have died in childbirth with Deedie, but the death date I have is 1891, which I really doubt. Ambrose remarried Phebe Jane Sanders in 1868. C.M.A.J. may have also been called Melissa or Malissa, but I'm not sure of that.

I already checked findagrave.com with no luck, but I know she's buried somewhere in Jackson County. Is anyone familiar with her? Have any more information on her?

Thank you so much!
Amy

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to dance in the rain."

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Mark Klan

Amy - Thanks for the additional information on CMAJ Sisk and your search. Do I correctly infer that your aunt Joy Precise Lard is no longer involved in family

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, Dec 17, 2009

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Amy -

Thanks for the additional information on CMAJ Sisk and your search.
Do I correctly infer that your aunt Joy Precise Lard is no longer
involved in family history? From the Family Record sheets I saw, she
did indeed do some good work.

I'm not sure where my mom got the Family Record sheets -- they may
have been attached to the letters Joy Lard sent to some of the elder
Precise's (including my grandfather Elmer Precise).

I also have a copy of the typescript "Precise Family Notes", but I
forgot that it mentioned a Wesley, brother of CMAJ. I'll have to go
back to that document and have another look. When I first went
through it, I determined that there were a fair number of errors, and
I didn't use it much after that.

Finally, if you or anyone have information on the parentage of the
original Jackson County William PRECISE (b. ~1805, Virginia), or the
maiden name or parentage of his wife Delilah (b. ~1811, Tennessee),
I'd be very interested in hearing about that. For William, I've seen
some stuff on a family in Virginia with surname PROCISE that is
suggestive, but certainly nothing definitive. Delilah is sometimes
mentioned as a HAWK or HAWKINS, but I've never seen any real evidence
or sources to confirm.

Mark

On 16 Dec 2009 at 14:58, Amy Christensen wrote:
> Mark:
>
> Joy Precise, who is now Joy Lard, is my aunt, and she most likely
> got the information from my mom (Eveonne). My mom and she were both
> very involved in family history in the 70s and did a lot of good
> work back then. Aunt Bertha died back in 1989, but her memory was
> unrivaled. The only problem is, my mom doesn't remember where the
> headstone is, or if she ever saw one. She does remember that Aunt
> Bertha didn't know what the initials CMAJ stood for, but I'm
> thinking maybe there was a mixup in the death date. Thus the asking
> here. Bertha Proctor is Robert Bertha Precise, oldest child of John
> William Precise, who was a son of Ambrose Lafayette Precise & Phebe
> Jane Sanders.
>
> I didn't know you could look through past messages here, I
> appreciate you putting the snippet of Rhonda's message on here
> again. That was from before I even started on family history work,
> so I wouldn't have seen it.
>
> I think I may have narrowed down the family of CMAJ Sisk, with the
> help of Rhonda Woodard, as I mentioned in another email earlier.
> It's a tenuous link though. I looked for a Sisk family in Jackson
> County that had a daughter with a name that started with one of
> CMAJ's initials born 1844, who had a brother named Wesley (that is
> from the document "Precise family notes") and came up with the same
> family that Rhonda had: Willis S Sisk and Francis Nancy Money, with
> a daughter named Melissa born 1844. I checked on Ancestry and
> couldn't verify it completely, as none of the family trees had
> listed Melissa with a spouse or death date. That's as far as I've
> gotten.
>
> Thanks for all the help, I appreciate it!
>
> Amy
>
> "Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
> It's about learning to dance in the rain."
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Mark Klan <mark@...>
> To: jacksongenealogy@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tue, December 15, 2009 5:40:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [jacksongenealogy] Looking for a grave: C.M.A.J. SISK
>
>
> Amy -
>
> I qualify as familiar with C.M.A.J. Sisk, but I don't have any more
> solid information than you.
>
> I do have a photocopy of a handwritten family record sheet prepared
> by a "Joy Precise" that also shows a death date of 3 Mar 1891. The
> sheet gives specific sources on CMAJ Sisk as 1) marriage license
> from
> Jackson Cty, 2) grave headstone, and 3) "personal knowledge of
> Bertha
> Proctor, granddaughter of husband, Route 1, Scottsboro, Ala." I
> think the sheet was prepared in the 1970s.
>
> That death date is only plausible if CMAJ and Ambrose Precise were
> divorced, but I have no specific knowledge of that. Ambrose married
> Phebe Jane Sanders in 1868, as you indicated, and later married
> Cynthia Ann (Kirby) Cobb in 1898.
>
> I never located CMAJ (Sisk) Precise in the Jackson County Cemetery
> Mega File, nor any prior census info on her (although I didn't look
> hard for the latter).
>
> Rhonda Woodard sent a message to this list on 4 Jan 2004, which had
> the following (snipped):
> > I am researching Ambrose Precise son of William and Delilah Hawk
> Precise.
> > Ambrose married C.M.A.J. Sisk(1865) they had one child Delila
> born(1866).
> > This is all that I know about C.M.A.J. Sisk, I cannot locate which
> of the Sisk
> > families she is from.
>
> That's all I have...
>
> Sorry I'm not more help. If you find anything additional, I would be
> very interested in hearing about it. Ambrose Precise was the brother
> of my g-g-grandfather John F. Precise.
>
> Mark Klan
> mark *at-sign* markabout.com
>
> On 14 Dec 2009 at 20:25, Amy Christensen wrote:
> > Hello all:
> >
> > I'm looking for the headstone for C.M.A.J. Sisk, born 16 Feb 1844
> in
> > Jackson County, Alabama. She married Ambrose Lafayette Precise
> in
> > 1865 and they had a child, Delila Francis "Deedie" Precise
> (born
> > 1866), who later moved to Eastland County, Texas. It seems that
> she
> > may have died in childbirth with Deedie, but the death date I
> have
> > is 1891, which I really doubt. Ambrose remarried Phebe Jane
> Sanders
> > in 1868. C.M.A.J. may have also been called Melissa or Malissa,
> but
> > I'm not sure of that.
> >
> > I already checked findagrave.com with no luck, but I know she's
> > buried somewhere in Jackson County. Is anyone familiar with her?
> > Have any more information on her?
> >
> > Thank you so much!
> > Amy
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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